ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

One morning, my students were getting ready for a math test and working through a set of review problems. For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it. As I checked in with one student who appeared to be working quietly, it turned out he had carefully solved the first problem, only to write guesses down for the rest.

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Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 24, 2024

1) From the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (abstract 6949) we learn that the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine maintained it’s efficacy over 4 seasons. …Importantly, maintained high efficacy over four malaria seasons with only four doses is demonstrated, with no concerns to date of rebound in those who have not received repeated booster doses of the malaria vaccine.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. But in college, where she’s a business major, calculus is proving insurmountable. It’s given her severe anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in ma

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

If you’re reading this, you might have AI anxiety. A recent survey from EY research shows that 71 percent of employees with knowledge of artificial intelligence are concerned about it. Considering how AI has rapidly entered education conversations, teachers and administrators are certainly represented in this statistic. Feelings of AI anxiety are valid for a technology that brings so much change and uncertainty.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 24, 2024

In a California gym, people living with Parkinson’s practice noncontact boxing to redefine their experience of the disease and maintain a sense of self. ✽ The smell of Thai food came wafting into the boxing gym from a restaurant across the street. Located in downtown San Diego, the gym storefront’s two large garage doors were rolled open, letting sunshine and breeze spill into the open space.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2024

For International Day of Education, Digital Promise reflects on how we’re promoting powerful learning that leads to well-being and fulfillment.

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Education 96

Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We sat on squeaky plastic chairs, outside on the red dirt in the community of La Toma, Colombia. Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects.

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Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 24, 2024

1. Short speed climbing video. 2. On David Graeber. 3. Vincent Geloso on the Piketty controversies. 4. Morgan Stanley values Tesla. 5. Guyana has the world’s highest oil reserves per capita, by far. 6. $2500 Macmillan teaching innovation award. And $2500 student award. The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

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Teaching 57

Political Science Now

JANUARY 24, 2024

Project Title: Why Autonomy? Extraction, Resistance, and Historical Origins of Indigenous Demands in Latin America Christopher Carter, University of Virginia Christopher Carter is an Assistant Professor in the department of politics and John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is also a Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley.

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O-Level Geography

JANUARY 24, 2024

Watch the video on the RTS link between Singapore and Malaysia. How would this will affect tourist arrivals for both countries? How does new mode of transport increase accessibility?

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 24, 2024

Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers By Aniket Kesari , Fordham University , Jae Yeon Kim , Code for America , Sono Shah , Pew Research Center , Taylor Brown , Meta , Tiago Ventura , Georgetown University and Tina Law , City University of New York Graduate Center Social scientists with data science skills increasingly are assuming positions as computational social scientists in academic and non-academic organizations.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 24, 2024

This programme has been running for quite a while. It visits factories making products. Inside the Factory website is here. They have now added an extra element to the website page which is an interactive look at how factories work and the production of favourite products. It is produced in association with the Open Universities.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 24, 2024

APSA included a donation option on our 2023 Annual Meeting & Exhibition registration form to help offset the effect travel has on climate change. We are pleased to report that our community made a contribution to the National Forest Foundation (NFF) , a nonprofit organization chartered by Congress that is working to conserve our National Forests and Grasslands.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

​​​ “Å falle mellom to stoler”: Africans in Norway In February 2023, I joined a Zoom call organized by my friend, Jelsen Lee Innocent. A conceptual artist working across different media, he had invited a small group to work with him on a project about the experience of being African or a person of African descent in Norway. I was in Accra, Ghana, for my field research at the time, and the other participants were located in Oslo, Norway.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 24, 2024

CFP: Medicine, Science and Enslavement in the Classical World: Encompassing Intersections kskordal Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:49 Image Medicine, Science and Enslavement in the Classical World: Encompassing Intersections Panel for the 15th Celtic Classics Conference, Cardiff, 9-12 July 2024. Co-organisers: Rebecca Flemming (Exeter) and Laurence Totelin (Cardiff) When the notable Roman physician Soranus of Ephesus discussed, ‘whether women have conditions peculiarly their own’ ( Gynaecology 3.1), he fel

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Living Geography

JANUARY 24, 2024

A recent report by Trajectory and Fleet Street explores adults' understanding of climate terminology such as 'green', 'sustainable', 'single use plastics' and the 'circular economy'. e.g. Those with higher levels of education had greater confidence in their understanding of key terms. For example, “circular economy” – an economy that eliminates waste and reduces carbon emissions by reusing resources – was understood by 11% more consumers with a university degree or higher compared with those who

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